[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 23294]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  COMMENDING THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, first, might I say, as I note your 
presence in the chair--and you are also the chairman of the 
Appropriations Committee, about which we are talking this morning--I 
compliment you. I have not seen more difficult hearings than you have 
endured in getting started on this process. I think you have been 
eminently fair. I have great confidence that what you choose to do, and 
how you choose to handle this, will be fair to everybody. And I say 
that to you in all honesty.

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